[Am-info] SCO Agrees IBM Owns AIX, JFS, NUMA, RCU Copyrights!!

[Mitch Stone]

Speaking of which, didn't Microsoft recently invest in SCO? Any 
connections being made here?

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 06:56 AM, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>
>
> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>>>
>> You can own exclusive rights without owning the copyrights.  The 
>> person
>> doing that interview did not listen very carefully to what SCO was
>> saying, and was not a lawyer, or he would have heard it more exactly.
>>
>> I wish I understood the claim by SCO well enough to know whether it 
>> has
>> substance, and to know whether I should avoid any code they lay claim
>> to, and what code they lay claim to, but it looks like nobody will 
>> know
>> the claim and the code before the trial, and that is the way SCO 
>> wants it.
>
> That's also the way Microsoft wants it.  All they need is enough Fear, 
> Uncertainty
> and Doubt and Linux is stopped dead in its tracks.
>
> You Linux users who are pinning your hopes on IBM - don't.
>
> IBM has caved to Microsoft in the past.  They are cowards.  They will 
> surrender
> again.
>
> IBM executives are owned by Microsoft.
>
> John
>
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